First date- check comes, and he looks at me?!

[caesarsgirl79]

I'm late, but this would definitely be a deal breaker for me. Maybe I am old fashioned, but I always at least offer the tip.

[LegalDiva]

Originally Posted by Ulysses61

Yeah, Marilyn... omniscient one. I've been with the same man for 32 years since we were both 15. I dated him for 14 years before we were married and I never had him pay for a single meal. I would assume that 32 years of happy togetherness and monogamous lifestyle would prove your remark is singularly obtuse and inane. Because a man doesn't pay for a meal does not make him "garbage." It means the woman he's dating has enough intelligence and indepedence to know she isn't his doormat.

Do you financially support your husband? Are you his sugar momma?

I would have walked out on that date. Cheap man! A dollar tip?! What an insult! Move on!

[sierraAZ]

Originally Posted by caesarsgirl79

Maybe I am old fashioned, but I always at least offer the tip.

Not at all! That's the new way! Or at least half-way to the new way!

[hatgirl007]

Deal Breaker. Kick Rocks. Look how much you have already compromised your preference and your reward is someone being cheap with you on the first date. F & L (first and last date). No doubt about it. His money is probably too thinly spread between child support and ex-wife. Keep it moving.
**$1 tip is an indication of no class.
You two are on two different pages.
(Dude could have at least offered to make you dinner or something if he knew he didn't have money for the both of you.)